Advances in broadband-integrated optic beam combiners for mid-IR astronomical interferometers

Jan Tepper; Romina Diener; Lucas Labadie; Stefano Minardi; Robert R. Thomson; Stefan Nolte

doi:10.1117/12.2249986

20 February 2017 Advances in broadband-integrated optic beam combiners for mid-IR astronomical interferometers

Jan Tepper, Romina Diener, Lucas Labadie, Stefano Minardi, Robert R. Thomson, Stefan Nolte

Proceedings Volume 10110, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering IV; 101100D (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249986
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Photonic technology has pushed the limits of astronomy ever more in recent years. Especially, integrated optics (IO) has led to new standards in accuracy and stability in the ﬁeld of astronomical interferometry where several beams need to be coherently and simultaneously combined. We follow and extend the IO concept by writing mid-IR waveguides in gallium lanthanum sulﬁde (GLS) using Ultrafast Laser Writing (ULI). Here, we report on the monochromatic and broadband interferometric capabilities in the mid-IR of such combiners. Finally, we outline the way to a ﬁber-fed IO 4-telescope instrument for next-generation astronomical interferometers.

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Jan Tepper, Romina Diener, Lucas Labadie, Stefano Minardi, Robert R. Thomson, and Stefan Nolte "Advances in broadband-integrated optic beam combiners for mid-IR astronomical interferometers", Proc. SPIE 10110, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering IV, 101100D (20 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249986

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